What does poor-john mean?

poor-john

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English

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"Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare."
"What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or / alive? A fish: he smells like a fish: a very ancient and / fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John."
"[I]f you ſcape vvith life, and take a fagot boat, and a bottle of Vſquebaugh, come home poore men, like a type of Theames Street ſtinking of pitch and poore Iohn."

poor-johns (plural)

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